Aggression toward sanctioned enemies is instilled through graded mastery training

Evidence

Boys of the Dani underwent a graduated training program in learning how to be warriors that was remarkably close to the best of guided mastery programs for cultivating competencies (Bandura, 1997). The training included instructive modeling, skill perfection under simulated conditions, and a graduated transfer program in which youths exercised their newly acquired skills in progressively tougher scenarios. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 166

Categorization

• XREF: Bandura’s point that killing competence is trained like any skill connects to the vault’s theme that attitudes toward out-groups are cultivated, not instinctual. — connects to: Educated black elites were trained as a mediating restraint against mass violence — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 154; Aggression is learned through observation because direct experience is too hazardous.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 166